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Bornite from
Gagnon Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bornite
Formula:Cu5FeS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bornite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gagnon Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:176435
Long-form Identifier:1:3:176435:2
GUID (UUID V4):f106ee04-2061-44ca-9b4d-b3b290ecdc7f
Nearest other occurrences of Bornite
0.1km (0.1 miles) Original Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Steward Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Clear Grit Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Moscow Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Syndicate pit, Walkerville, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Poulin Mine (Stella Mine; Buffalo Mine), Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Estella Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Little Mina Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Buffalo Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Blue Jay Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines, and History Robert E. Jenkins 6 Columbus Circle Newark, Delaware 19702...been recorded from Butte. Specimens of copper sulfides and sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite, colusite...rank among the finest in the world. The best of Butte pyrite compares with the best anywhere. Handsome...Handsome specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many...Kelley #2 (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record
Journal (issue)
BUTTE, MONTANA Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines and History The Mineralogical Record Volume 33 • Number...crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection; Jeff Scovil...painted to illustrate “The Story of Montana: The Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper...volume 33, January–February, 2002 Contents Butte, Montana: Minerals, Mines and History By Robert E. Jenkins...Jenkins & Jerry A. Lorengo Ed McDole: “Montana Mineral King” By Richard A. Bideaux What’s new in minerals:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Montana Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015...2015 K NOWN AS THE TREASURE STATE, Montana is rich in mineral and gemstone localities. The state motto...Plata meaning “gold and silver,” and the state seal with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim...Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production of copper, coal, gold, lead, manganese, phosphate, silver, talc...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure
Report (issue)
74 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BUTTE DISTRICT, MONTANA BY \¥ALTER I-IAllVEY vVEED WASHINGTON......................... ~ . . . . Epoch of gold mining ................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Epoch o'f silver mining ........· ......... ·................................. ~.............. Development of copper mining. ~ ..· . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................... Future of the district .................................. ·.........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pohwatp@si.edu ENARGITE Longfellow Mine, Red Mountain District, San Juan County, Colorado Are all things beautiful...north orebody of the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County, Colorado. Specimen is 2.5 cm...Figure 2. Enargite trilling from Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. Twin is 5 mm across and is on the... lustrous enargite crystals from Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. The specimen is 5 cm across. William...sedimentary-hosted lead-zinc deposits of the Tri-State district in the United States. It is known to replace pyrite
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR BuiiIiETIN 574 MINING DISTRICTS OF THE DILLON QUADRANGLE, MONTANA AND ADJACENT AREAS BY ALEXANDER................................................. Mining districts...................................................................................... Mining development. ...................... .. - - ' -..................................... 18 Placer mining....... ~................................................................ 20 Present status of mining .....:........................................
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
METALLIC MINERALS SILVER AS AND PRECIPITANTS OF GOLD. • CHASE PALMER AND EDSON S. BASTIN. INTRODUCTION...chalcociteis hung in a dilute aqueoussolutionof silver sulphate (•/4o normal) a coasting of silverbeginsto...to that formedwhen metalliczinc is immersedin a silver solution. The efficacyof chalcociteas a pre- cipitantof...Detailedquantitative studieswere also made of the reaction of silver sulphate solutionwith chalcociteand niccoliteso...S. Survey. I4O Geological PRECIPITANTS OF SILVER AND GOLD. 141 of the U.S. GeologicalSurveybut
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ......................................... 139 144 146 153 158 163 169 . 172 174 Montana..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Report (volume)
depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Copper-bearing deposits________________________ 199 Butte, Montana__________________________ 199 Bingham,...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico...__ 233 Shasta County, California______ _ __ 234 Snowstorm lode, Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho__ _ 235
Report (volume)
precipitation of the metalo........ Composition of mine waters............................................of sulphide enrichment Continued. Composition of mine waters Continued. Discussion of analyses Continued........................................ Gold and silver............................................ Changes...on depth..................... Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions....... Oxidation...relations and minerals of silver........................... Principal silver minerals................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PARAGENESIS BUTTE OF THE ORE DISTRICT, MINERALS IN THE MONTANA. JAMES C. RAY.1 INTRODUCTION...materialrecentlycollectedby the writer in the Butte District. I am deeplyindebtedto the managersand geologists...Messrs. N.H. Emmons and E. A. Hewitt, of the North Butte Copper'MiningCo.; and Mr. Case,superintendent of...Speculator, Berkeley,Silver Bow, Elm Orlu, Gagnon, MountainView, Leonard,Belleof Butte,FractionLease(Clark...followingmines: Leonard,Pilot-Butte,Badger, Elm Orlu, East Colusa,West Colusa,Alec Scott,Silver Bow, Pennsylvania,
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 955-E FLUORSPAR PROSPECTS OP MONTANA BY CLYDE P. ROSS Contributions to economic geology...near Anaconda, Deer Lodge County-_______________ Silver Bow prospect, Silver Bow County__________________________...ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 18. A, General view of East Butte from the south; B, View down Sage Creek from the..._______ 28. Geologic and topographic map of the Silver Bow fluorspar 209 prospect--...---------------...--- In pocket FIGURE 6. Index map of part of Montana, showing the mapped fluorsparbearing areas and
Journal (issue)
................... MINERALS OF THE BlJ'I"I E DISTRICT. By Peter A. S111ith ..... .... A MINERAL TRIP...MINERALS OF THE BUTTE DISTRICT, MONTANA By PETER A. SM 1TH Placer gold was discovered in Butte in -r-----~Ui~...and the first silver vein the next year. In a few years Butte was a prosperous silver mining camp. Copper...1886 the the fire areas is not lost as the water Butte mines have annually yielded more leaches it out...any other single district in water containing copper sulphate is pumpthe world. Butte Hill is locally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
illustratingthe association of bornite and,chalcoci, te as they occurin the Leonard Mine, Butte, Mont. A's I have...20o-foot levelsof the Leonard mine came from a part of the district in which bornite occurs muchmore sparinglythan...especiallynear the shaft, and x Sales, Reno, "Ore Depositsat Butte, Mont.," A. I. M. S., Vol. XLV1. I79 I8O DISCUS310N...Tramway Mine, Butte, Mont., 2•oo-ft. level. Mag.----93 diams. Chalcocite (cc) replacing bornite (Bo). In...left by a partial replacement of bornite. Fro. 2. Tramway Mine, Butte, Mont., 2,2oo-ft. level. Mag.--800
Book (edition)
who have been engaged in the study of our great mining regions, especially in the West, have laid the...now in the active practice of the profession of mining engi neering. J. F. K. DECEMBER, 1899. NO TEXT...125-129; Marquette district, 129-136; Menominee dis trict, 136-139; Penokee-Gogebic district, 139-143; Vermilion...189-194; Spenceville, Cal., 195, 196; Example 17, Butte, Mont.; 197-203; Gilpin Co., Colo., 203, 204; Llano...CHAPTER VI.— LEAD AND ZINC. Example 24, Upper Miss. Valley, 233-237; Washington Co., Mo., 238, 239; Livingston
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wide. Early A-type quartz veins with disseminated bornite accompanied biotitic and K-feldspar-magnetite alteration...sericite-clay-pyrite alteration sulfidized much of the primary bornite to chalcopyrite with or without pyrite, and ca...northwestern Canadian Cordillera in British Columbia. Mining has recently begun (late 2014) after over 50 years...Location of the Red Chris district in northern British Columbia, Canada. from where mine concentrate will be...assessment reviews in 2005 and 2006, respectively, but mine feasibility at that time was precluded by the lack
Journal (issue)
Record Inc. Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N. Radford and J...the Niobec mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec .....................355 by I. Kennedy and G. Gagnon Minerals of...of the Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt Shavano Peak . . . a new Mt...— December, 1981 Bunker Hill the mine kellogg, shoshone county, idaho by Norman Radford P. O. Box N...California 94560 he Bunker Hill mine in the famous Coeur D ’Alene district of Idaho has produced some of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Structural Geologic Evolution of the Butte District, Montana Robert A. Houston†,* and John H. Dilles...Bldg., Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Abstract The Butte district contains two porphyry Cu-Mo deposits and the...and folding in southwest Montana. New geologic mapping of the Butte district reveals three distinct episodes...that are limited to the northwest part of the district and synchronous with the eruption of the Lowland...fluid inclusion data indicate that exposures of the Butte Granite, which hosts mineralization, crystallized
Book
uccessor in interest, the American Institute oC Mining and M etallurgical Engineers has made a grant from...attended his efforts- not the spectacular success of a mining executive, but the more lasting success in the...spontaneous movement arose among geologists and mining engineers to express in some appropriate fashion...Board of Directors of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers elected him to H onorary...that would touch wider circles, was desirable. The Mining Geology Committee of the A.I.M.E. undertook to
Report (volume)
Cover illustration Beryl crystal in quartz, Lacorne mine. The crystal is 39 mm long and 18 mm wide. National...2359J Molybdenite crystal in quartz, Moly Hill mine. The crystal is 33 mm across. National Mineral Collection...Baldwin (Kelmac) mine Swastika (Crescent Kirkland) mine Lucky Cross (Golden Gate) mine Adams mine Boston molybdenite...Boston Creek gold mine Barry-Hollinger (Patricia) mine Boston-McRae mine Planet Gold mine Miller Independence...Independence mine Kennedy-Boston mine Cathroy Larder (Yama) mine Macassa mine Kirkland Lake gold mine Teck-Hughes
Journal (issue)
Hazen The best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec ........ .......................1972, and considered to be the finest known Jeffrey mine grossular specimen. Marco Amabili collection; James...covering Maine, New York, Pennsylvania (Chester County), Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Washington, Colorado (two)...(two), New Mexico (the Bingham Canyon mine), Nevada, Arizona (two), Mexico, Brazil, Northern England...Bell] mine, Beaverdell. The Beaverdell mine is one of several small mines in the Beaverdell silver-mining
Book (volume)
ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu © f the Ore deposiits...(1933) AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME AIME TRANSACTIONS MINE PLANT VOLUME 112, MILLING METHODS (1933) (1934)...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND...AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 178, MINING GEOLOGY AIME TRANSACTIONS 181, MINING, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, EDUCATION
Report (volume)
----.---...------..----.--.-.---. 12 Sulphide of silver, copper, and zinc. -...--...-.--..-.-..-.........ARSENIDES. BISMUTHINITB. From the Rosario Mining District, Sinaloa, Mexico. W. I-I. Melville. Described...Bulletin 61. COVELLITE. From the East Greyrock mine, Butte, Mont. Collected by G. W. Tower. Analysis by...A massive ore from the mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district of Algoma, Ontario. Specific...Another nickel-iron sulphide, from the Worthington mine, SauTt branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 25
Report (issue)
bc.ca/gov/content/industry/mineral-exploration-mining/british-columbia-geological-survey/publications...volume, the Provincial Overview of Exploration and Mining in British Columbia. I would like to acknowledge...Stuhini Group rocks in the past-producing Scottie gold mine area near Stewart and a Hazelton Group stratigraphy...LA-ICP-MS zircon geochronology of the Scottie gold mine area, northwestern British Columbia ..............the annual Provincial Overview of Exploration and Mining in British Columbia volume, and includes three
 
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